Post by GRWelsh on May 7, 2023 13:56:14 GMT -5
It's by the same company -- Free League Publishing -- that created the ALIEN RPG, which is excellent, so I may have to buy this. I just rewatched BLADE RUNNER 2049 yesterday and in my opinion it improves upon each rewatch, much like the first film did. Yesterday I was picking up on a lot of the background details, such as a reference to the Soviet Union which apparently still exists in that alternate future. So, this isn't "our" future -- it is really intended to be an alternate timeline where events began to go much differently at some point in the past -- perhaps in the 1980's or earlier. This makes sense when you consider the first film took place in 2019 which was in a decidedly different world than ours was just a few years ago.
I think my main concern with this game and with the ALIEN RPG is that while the rule books are beautiful and very evocative of the properties they represent in game form, I am not sure they have a lot of replayability. For example, I ran an ALIEN scenario that played out very well and felt cinematic, it felt very much like an ALIEN movie, but it was hard to imagine playing in ongoing or campaign mode with that level of tension and lethality. Is there enough to explore in an entire campaign? They don't seem to have the same open-endedness of games like D&D or CALL OF CTHULHU.
I think my main concern with this game and with the ALIEN RPG is that while the rule books are beautiful and very evocative of the properties they represent in game form, I am not sure they have a lot of replayability. For example, I ran an ALIEN scenario that played out very well and felt cinematic, it felt very much like an ALIEN movie, but it was hard to imagine playing in ongoing or campaign mode with that level of tension and lethality. Is there enough to explore in an entire campaign? They don't seem to have the same open-endedness of games like D&D or CALL OF CTHULHU.